{"id":2293,"date":"2025-11-27T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:56:03","slug":"fuzzy-zoeller-two-time-major-winner-dies-aged-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2293","title":{"rendered":"Fuzzy Zoeller: Two-time major winner dies aged 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Woods won the Masters, which entitled him to choose the Champions Dinner menu for the following year, Zoeller said: &#8220;You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Got it? Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoeller later apologised and said his words had been misconstrued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve cried many times. I&#8217;ve apologized countless times for words said in jest that just aren&#8217;t a reflection of who I am,&#8221; he wrote for Golf Digest in 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have hundreds of friends, including people of colour, who will attest to that. Still, I&#8217;ve come to terms with the fact that this incident will never, ever go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoeller was also a 10-time winner on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fuzzy was a true original whose talent and charisma left an indelible mark on the game of golf,&#8221; said PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fuzzy combined competitive excellence with a sense of humour that endeared him to fans and fellow players alike. We celebrate his remarkable legacy and extend our deepest condolences to his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Woods won the Masters, which entitled him to choose the Champions Dinner menu for the following year, Zoeller said: &#8220;You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. &#8220;Got it? Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.&#8221; Zoeller later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}